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Originally Posted by stripermaineiac
Think of this. One short heavy weigh at the tail makes a plug cast good.but it will sit tail down and takes a faster retreive to get it on top. Take the same weight and make it longer so that it is now spread out through the center of the plug towards the belly hook and it will change the angle that the plug sits in the water so that it comes up on top easier. Think of how spooks are weighted. Ron
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Funny you mentioned that -- I cut the wire off a Gibbs' floater yesterday to see what it had for a tail weight. It was about .3oz, but it was long and narrow.
I have to make a few hardwood lead molds to match this -- using the shorter, heavier tail weights is messing-up the angle of the needle.